Details
Creator Morris, Marriott Canby, 1863-1948, photographer.
Title Street in St. Georges, Elwell on wall, Public garden on left, [Bermuda] [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1886
Date March 12, 1886
Physical Description 1 photograph : glass negative ; negative 4 x 5 in.
Description Glass negative showing a narrow street lined with stone walls on Saint George Island. Godet Elwell sits on the wall in front of a house. A Black woman, attired in a brimmed hat with a ribbon and a plaid shawl, stands behind the wall and looks at the viewer. A young Black child sits on the wall between them. A Black girl, attired in a brimmed hat, a white dress, a shawl, and shoes, stands behind Elwell. Behind the family, a sheet and clothes, hang on a clothesline and on a bush. More buildings line the road in the right.
Notes Time: P.M.
Light: Faint sun.
Purchase 2001.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
Digitization and cataloging has been made possible through the generosity of David Marriott Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, and William Perot Morris in memory of Marriott Canby Morris and his children: Elliston Perot Morris, Marriott Canby Morris Jr., and Janet Morris and in acknowledgment of his grandchildren: William Perot Morris, Eleanor Rhoads Morris Cox, Jonathan White Morris, and David Marriott Morris.
Edited.
Subject Elwell, Godet -- Portraits.
Children, Black -- Bermuda Islands.
Clotheslines.
Dirt roads -- Bermuda Islands.
Dwellings -- Bermuda Islands.
Women, Black -- Bermuda Islands.
Black children -- Bermuda Islands.
Black women -- Bermuda Islands.
African American History
Philadelphia artists.
Geographic subject Bermuda Islands.
Saint George (Bermuda Islands)
Genre Glass negatives.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.853]
Accession number P.9895.853